Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 overclocking

[Gizmo]

Nordic Hardware have taken a Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale and put it through the torture test.

Read more on the Front Page:

http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/1866/2/

[cadaveca]

I have 6 of these cpu's. not one does this well. is Engineering sample cpu's or hand-picked.:banghead. best I got was 3.4ghz(the one I am keeping). And it's not like any of my e6600 or QX6700 have any issues on any of the boards I got.

[Gizmo]

They do meniton in the article that it is an engineering sample.....

[cadaveca]

I thought so. I must say tho, even the worst of them still does 2.4ghz on stock voltage on stock cooler. This is very good, IMHO, however it's not the same story I see spreading around. These cpu's are FSB-limited only, and not voltage. this may be overcome given the right board, maybe...I'm trying as I type this, actually.

[gedon]

this is what I got after the first day. so maybe not 100% stable, but it's folding since 12h. the Abit IB9 I have doesn't recognize one of my raid controllers. I tried everything, other PCI slot, only controller and gfx card, disabled onboard usb, lan, audio, ide, sata and still no luck
I ordered the dfi rd600 and hopefully it is worth the money
@cadaveca do you have one of theses dfi boards?

[cadaveca]

Yep. really hard to say if it's worth it..i definately allows lots of overclocking possibilities, but the performance is a bit lacking.

[cloasters]

Hypothetically speaking, what if you didn't mind running an E6600 at stock. Any mainboard choices come to mind, oh sages? And DDR2 800 RAM, also for stock? Just asking.

[cadaveca]

lol. whatever floats your boat. all these boards have so many features packed into them that it's really the features you are paying for, and not really the board itself. This being said, for stock, grab whatever you like. won't matter one bit when it comes to stability.


In regards to ram, jsut stay awy from Corsair at the moment, as thier sticks has issues booting in some boards. timings and such won't affect real-world performance, so that's not something to even worry about. even PC5300 is good for stock cpu FSB.

[cloasters]

Thank you for the prescription, cadaveca. In two days, I've seen warnings against certain Crucial models of DDR2, and now this warning about Corsair. I wish Samsung pushed their own sticks of RAM, I've been happy with their stuff over the years. Even Samsung on thirds has been good to me. I'm really liking some Buffalo DDR PC-3200 DIMMS that I searched for in place of some Kingston, a year and a half ago. With the proviso that it's been a long time since I OC'd a rig.

[cadaveca]

Well, it's really a sad state of affairs that I saw coming some time ago. I mentioned months ago when it was time to buy ddr2...prices have steadily increased since then, and really production has not slowed, nor is there any lack of supply. In fact, this latest price hike was nothing more than a good old "screw the customer over" scenario that we are all too familiar with.


Now maybe if i saw some of these IC re-labellers selling hynix parts, I could understand, but the fact of teh matter is that I don't see any one the shelf, really, except from kingston and a bunch of no-name brands for mom-and-pop shops.

Corsair's issue is a SPD one. BIOS fixes could right the problem as well, but whateva. Some of them are Micron and are just as prone to death as the Crucial(a division of Micron). The Micron IC's tend to carry a price premium tho, so just keep that in mind when you buy ram, as all IC re-labellers are using them, OCZ, GSkill, Buffallo(who's currently clearing out thier Micron-based parts for very cheap...no wonder...)...it doesn't matter.

[cloasters]

Well, then I'll skip the Buffalo Firestix. Calling Samsung, come in Samsung!

[cadaveca]

lol Samsung DDR2 just bites. Good luck finding any.

BTW, my new crucials are running very tight timings @ 400mhz, 1.9v
like 4-4-3-3-4-8-28-3-3-3-2-3-2-2-4 and 1T. memtest 3345mb @ 3ghz
stock is 4-4-4-4-12-24-42-3-8-3-2-3-2-2-5 and 2T. memtest 2653mb @ 3ghz.



that's .3v below stock voltage. that's not so bad, and why I posted the crucial thread. suffice it to say that there are limits that need to be imposed, adn that Micron sticks don't always need as much as is stated for stock voltage...this is merely something to ensure compatibility. However, due to different bios-settings from board to board(ram drivestrengths, and other things) and different components supplying power to rams, 2.2v is sometimes WAY TOO MUCH!

Samsugn has issues themselves in current products. GDDR went through a bad year last year...very bad IC's...this seems to have hurt them lately, or maybe they have stopped producing DDR and DDR2, and gone on to DDR3....

[z3speed4me]

my corsair is the SUCK.... cant get over 3.0 ghz on my chip, my ocz was over 3.4 but i only had it for a day, it was already sold, just didnt ship it quite yet at the time, just waiting to do everything at once, r600 and g skill for a bump

this chip SHOULD be at 3.6-3.8 easy, god i hate that i got rid of that ocz ati ram

[keithwalton]

from you sig you are running the ram in sync with the fsb which is good, fsb though is starting to push it on the p5w i cant get mine to post at anything above 406mhz fsb

[cloasters]

I knew it was time to buy DDR2 a good while ago. Yet buying it "blind," with no specific mainboard in mind seemed too risky. It's always something! Bad news about Samsung's DDR2. Micron/Crucial, Corsair, Samsung bad. Goody.

[z3speed4me]

well 406 would even be acceptable to me... but i should DEF be over 400, hitting 400 should NOT be an issue, and it is, and really bothers me


i really wish i could like GIVE my computer to someone one here and just be like MAKE THIS WORK NOW!!!!

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by cloasters

I knew it was time to buy DDR2 a good while ago. Yet buying it "blind," with no specific mainboard in mind seemed too risky. It's always something! Bad news about Samsung's DDR2. Micron/Crucial, Corsair, Samsung bad. Goody.

DDR3 is on it's way...never fear!

[z3speed4me]

yea but is probably going to be stupid expensive